Page 94 of Murder in the Family

As Laila’s about to discover, the real Luke Ryder had a tatt on the back of his left shoulder. It’s hard to make out exactly what it is, but my guess is a version of the Hokusai wave. It’s pretty popular with surfers.

Laila turns to the rest of them.

LAILA FURNESS

He’s right. Once you know what you’re looking for you see it straightaway.

JJ NORTON

Don’t tell me – the ‘Luke Ryder’ who married Caroline had no tattoos.

BILL SERAFINI

You got it.

He gestures to the body map that’s been pinned on the board since the first Ep.

As confirmed by the autopsy: Eric Fulton, AKA ‘Luke Ryder’ had no tatts.

LAILA FURNESS

But he could easily have had one like that done if he wanted to pass himself off as Luke—

JJ NORTON

(shaking his head – he’s already one step ahead)

He didn’t get one done because he didn’t know he needed to—

MITCHELL CLARKE

(nodding)

—because they didn’t know each other.He had no idea the real Luke Ryder had that ink. On his shoulder or anywhere else for that matter.

BILL SERAFINI

Yup. It was just a random trick of fate that put the two of them on the same bus at exactly the wrong moment. They’d never met before.

HUGO FRASER

So what do you think happened? This Eric Fulton stole the real Luke Ryder’s passport?

BILL SERAFINI

I think so. By all accounts the real Luke was right next to the bomb when it went off. There wouldn’t have been much of him left to identify.

JJ NORTON

And in all the smoke and confusion immediately afterwards Fulton switches passports with a dead guy?

BILL SERAFINI

Right.

He turns and pins up a picture of the real Luke alongside the fake one.

LAILA FURNESS

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